On the Geometry of Flat Pseudo-Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces

preprint2015arXivOpen access

Abstract

Let MM be complete flat pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous manifold and $Γ\subset\Iso(\RR^n_s)$ its fundamental group. We show that MM is a trivial fiber bundle $G/Γ\to M\to\RR^{n-k}$, where GG is the Zariski closure of ΓΓ in $\Iso(\RR^n_s)$. Moreover, we show that the GG-orbits in $\RR^n_s$ are affinely diffeomorphic to GG endowed with the (0)-connection. If the induced metric on the GG-orbits is non-degenerate, then GG (and hence ΓΓ) has linear abelian holonomy. If additionally GG is not abelian, then GG contains a certain subgroup of dimension 6. In particular, for non-abelian GG orbits with non-degenerate metric can appear only if dim⁡G≥6\dim G\geq 6.

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